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Tech CEO Says San Francisco Techies, Venture Capitalists Are Afraid of ‘Sex’
SFgate ^ | May 31, 2023 | Joshua Bote

Posted on 05/31/2023 1:13:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The founder of a fledgling app says that San Francisco’s tech scene is afraid of sex, or at least the word “sex.”

Elizabeth Dell, the founder and CEO of the romance and sex app Amorus — an app that gamifies sexting for long-term couples — is accusing Andreessen Horowitz (also known as a16z) — the wildly influential tech venture capital firm based in Menlo Park — of hiding her successful sex tech mixer during San Francisco Tech Week.

For the uninitiated, Tech Week is a series of luxe workshops, happy hours and parties like Dell’s wrapped under the guise of venture capital and tech networking spearheaded by a16z. This is the first year Tech Week is being held in San Francisco; as in years past, it will also be held in New York and Los Angeles. In this year’s lineup for San Francisco: a Barry’s Bootcamp “sweatworking” session, a surfing event, an artificial intelligence pitch night with hot wings and bike riding down Golden Gate Park.

Dell, a former Hollywood film producer and recent convert into the tech industry, founded Amorus 18 months ago and has been adamant about getting sex tech — a genre of technology that constitutes everything from apps like hers to sexual health startups to smart sex toys — into the conversation.

“Part of this is to build community among the sex tech community, but part of this is also to bring this community to the wider tech community,” Dell said. “… Just like prop tech [real estate and property technology] or space tech or fintech [financial technology] or whatever, I want sex tech on the list.”

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To: 17th Miss Regt

Her latest film — excerpt from IMDB.com:

A groom-to-be accidentally books his destination wedding and honeymoon at a swingers resort in Jamaica.

End of excerpt.


21 posted on 05/31/2023 1:44:11 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Lazamataz; Olog-hai

“Elizabeth” Dell reminds me of the story that the ballad by KISS named “Beth” was originally supposed to be “Beck” (after a girl named “Becky”). But Gene Simmons was right in figuring that the fans didn’t want to hear a man sing a song to a “Beck” without taking time to figure out if it was a woman.


22 posted on 05/31/2023 1:44:35 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai; Lazamataz

Now that I had a second look, it looks a bit like Paul Lynde.


23 posted on 05/31/2023 1:46:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Tell It Right

Back then, it sure would’ve sounded like it was an ode to the late, great Jeff Beck.


24 posted on 05/31/2023 1:46:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
Now that I had a second look, it looks a bit like Paul Lynde.

Yes! If Paul Lynde and Hillary had a love child...

25 posted on 05/31/2023 1:47:32 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai
That was supposed to be the double-entendre, an ode to Jeff Beck by singing romantically to a lonely girl back home named Becky whom the singer affectionately referred to as Beck.

Supposedly, Gene Simmons was the one who said, naaahhhhh.

26 posted on 05/31/2023 1:49:54 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: nickcarraway
Not that this is anything new, but notice how the left always uses a distorted version of the word “community” to immediately put a stake in the ground for every new level of degeneracy that comes along? It’s the “gay community”, the “trans community”, etc. They do this very deliberately to try to portray these groups of degenerates as just another legitimate segment of the overall population, and thus beyond criticism. They want you to believe that a bunch of homosexual pedophiles are no different than retirees congregating in some over-55 community in Florida.

This tactic is also an extension of their strategy to define every individual first and foremost as just a faceless member of one of their contrived groups, created to gain political power by dividing and conquering.

27 posted on 05/31/2023 1:52:39 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.y )
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To: Tell It Right

Both names are Hebrew, Becky being an abbreviation of Rebecca (Rivkah, “binding ties”) and Beth meaning “house”. Simmons’ real name is Chaim Witz.


28 posted on 05/31/2023 1:55:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Tell It Right
And Elizabeth (from Elishevah) translates as “The LORD is my oath/promise”.
29 posted on 05/31/2023 1:57:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nickcarraway

It would cost less to buy a first class military grade mine detector, than the body armor necessary to protect a man from the booby traps.


30 posted on 05/31/2023 2:02:10 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: nickcarraway
I thought the Bob Lee murder blew the lid on all this stuff.

Murdered tech boss Bob Lee attended ‘sex and drug parties’

31 posted on 05/31/2023 2:08:47 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Olog-hai
The app maker, “Elizabeth” Dell.

Whoa! Urp. She's right. Venture capitalists are afraid of sex.

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With her.

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And rightly so.

32 posted on 05/31/2023 2:17:47 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee

Make sure “her” is in scare quotes. The second coming of Paul Lynde is undeserving of the term . . .


33 posted on 05/31/2023 2:21:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nickcarraway
"....has been adamant about getting sex tech... into the conversation."

What conversation?

34 posted on 05/31/2023 2:30:47 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: All

Just leave me and my Cherry 2000 sexbot out of the conversation and we’ll all be fine.


35 posted on 05/31/2023 2:37:36 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: Red Badger

Reminds me of the old SNL commercial for “Bad Idea Jeans” (when they were funny.”

“I didn’t have any condoms, but I figured, when is the next time I ‘ll be in Haiti.”


36 posted on 05/31/2023 2:42:55 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t recall the source but there was a story about the tech boys and crypto boys who made millions and billions who would rent out entire nightclubs and they were even too shy to get with the hookers.

The good thing is they won’t be breeding.


37 posted on 05/31/2023 2:44:18 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Lazamataz

You are a great American hero. You have stared your fears in the face, overcome them and moved foward despite this.


38 posted on 05/31/2023 2:58:32 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Lazamataz

Given today’s definition of it, any sane person would be.


39 posted on 05/31/2023 3:34:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Lazamataz

Well, I am not into your turkey thing. I guess that makes me a “hater.”


40 posted on 05/31/2023 3:50:47 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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